Notable Historical Events - 1981
1981 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
Jan 1 |
Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community |
Jan 1 |
International Year for the Disabled begins |
Jan 1 |
Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing |
Jan 1 |
Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors |
Jan 2 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) |
Jan 2 |
Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI v Pakistan |
Jan 3 |
55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75) |
Jan 3 |
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr |
Jan 3 |
Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG |
Jan 3 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91) |
Jan 4 |
"Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway |
Jan 4 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances |
Jan 4 |
69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63) |
Jan 4 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" |
Jan 4 |
"Red Right 88", trailing 14—12 with little time remaining the Browns chose to attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) before trying for a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but the pass is intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins |
Jan 5 |
"Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins |
Jan 5 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women |
Jan 6 |
50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals |
Jan 8 |
"Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances |
Jan 8 |
India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia |
Jan 8 |
Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner) |
Jan 9 |
Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal |
Jan 10 |
El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" |
Jan 10 |
John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m |
Jan 11 |
"Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances |
Jan 11 |
Palau adopts constitution |
Jan 11 |
Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) |
Jan 12 |
"Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV |
Jan 12 |
-35°F (-37°C), Chester, Massachusetts (state record) |
Jan 12 |
Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC |
Jan 13 |
Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour |
Jan 13 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov |
Jan 13 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals |
Jan 14 |
FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish |
Jan 15 |
"Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV |
Jan 15 |
Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Jan 16 |
Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth |
Jan 16 |
John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK |
Jan 16 |
Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband |
Jan 16 |
Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg |
Jan 17 |
Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege |
Jan 18 |
Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets |
Jan 18 |
Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity |
Jan 19 |
Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide |
Jan 19 |
US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages |
Jan 20 |
52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed |
Jan 20 |
Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA |
Jan 20 |
Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Jan 20 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0 |
Jan 20 |
Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President |
Jan 21 |
"Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances |
Jan 21 |
Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train |
Jan 21 |
Norman Stronge and his son James (both former Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament) are assassinated by the Irish Republican Army at their home Tynan Abbey, which is then burnt down |
Jan 22 |
40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th |
Jan 22 |
O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints |
Jan 23 |
1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente California) |
Jan 23 |
Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin |
Jan 23 |
Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games |
Jan 23 |
Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi |
Jan 24 |
Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques |
Jan 24 |
Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide |
Jan 25 |
52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US |
Jan 25 |
Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death |
Jan 25 |
Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB |
Jan 26 |
Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval |
Jan 28 |
"5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Jan 28 |
William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987) |
Jan 28 |
Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision |
Jan 29 |
AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million |
Jan 30 |
8th American Music Award: Barbra Streisand & Kenny Rogers win |
Jan 31 |
"The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1 |
Jan 31 |
38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter |
Jan 31 |
Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39) |
Feb 1 |
11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7 |
Feb 1 |
31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland |
Feb 1 |
Duke Ellington's musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC |
Feb 1 |
Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 |
Feb 1 |
French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq |
Feb 1 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7 |
Feb 1 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
Feb 1 |
Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG |
Feb 3 |
Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
Feb 3 |
Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway |
Feb 5 |
"Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances |
Feb 5 |
Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane |
Feb 5 |
Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy |
Feb 6 |
"Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV |
Feb 6 |
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Feb 6 |
Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4) |
Feb 8 |
"5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
Feb 8 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances |
Feb 8 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 8 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak |
Feb 8 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
Feb 10 |
33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA |
Feb 10 |
8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton |
Feb 10 |
Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249 |
Feb 11 |
Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win |
Feb 11 |
Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski |
Feb 12 |
Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Feb 12 |
Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent |
Feb 12 |
Cape Verde amends its constitution |
Feb 12 |
Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m |
Feb 13 |
Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words |
Feb 13 |
A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. |
Feb 14 |
Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people |
Feb 15 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Feb 15 |
Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY |
Feb 17 |
Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history |
Feb 19 |
George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" |
Feb 20 |
Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds |
Feb 20 |
James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec) |
Feb 21 |
"Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured |
Feb 21 |
Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live |
Feb 21 |
Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k) |
Feb 21 |
NASA launches Comstar D-4 |
Feb 22 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic |
Feb 23 |
People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips |
Feb 23 |
Spanish coup under lt-col Antonio Tejero Molina fails |
Feb 24 |
Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer |
Feb 24 |
Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower |
Feb 24 |
An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. |
Feb 25 |
23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins |
Feb 25 |
Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders |
Feb 25 |
Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 |
Feb 25 |
L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain |
Feb 25 |
NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins) |
Feb 25 |
NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames |
Feb 25 |
Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue |
Feb 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 25 |
Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved |
Feb 26 |
3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released |
Feb 26 |
84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost |
Feb 26 |
French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run |
Feb 27 |
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 |
Feb 27 |
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory" |
Feb 28 |
Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws |
Feb 28 |
China PR throws out Neth ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan |
Mar 1 |
"Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs |
Mar 1 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
Mar 1 |
Republican prisoners in the Maze began a second hunger strike; among the prisoners is Bobby Sands |
Mar 2 |
Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists |
Mar 2 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC |
Mar 3 |
Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals |
Mar 3 |
NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie |
Mar 5 |
"Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 perfs |
Mar 5 |
Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (GRB) |
Mar 5 |
Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS) |
Mar 5 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
Mar 5 |
US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer |
Mar 6 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Mar 6 |
Soyuz 39 returns to Earth |
Mar 6 |
Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News" |
Mar 6 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann |
Mar 7 |
"Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 4 performances |
Mar 7 |
1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death |
Mar 8 |
"Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs |
Mar 8 |
Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game |
Mar 8 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
Mar 9 |
Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News |
Mar 9 |
7th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda & Goldie Hawn win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
Mar 11 |
Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins |
Mar 11 |
Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Mar 12 |
Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
Mar 12 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC |
Mar 12 |
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA |
Mar 13 |
NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul |
Mar 15 |
"Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC |
Mar 15 |
Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
Mar 15 |
Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker |
Mar 17 |
FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms |
Mar 18 |
Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto) |
Mar 19 |
-21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time |
Mar 19 |
2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident |
Mar 19 |
Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4 |
Mar 20 |
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years |
Mar 20 |
Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr |
Mar 22 |
1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents |
Mar 22 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Mar 22 |
Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 |
Mar 22 |
Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) |
Mar 23 |
Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men |
Mar 23 |
Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions |
Mar 24 |
"Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC |
Mar 24 |
Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy |
Mar 24 |
Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba |
Mar 26 |
Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia |
Mar 26 |
Soyuz T-4 lands |
Mar 27 |
John Lennon single "Watching the Wheels" released posthumously in UK |
Mar 28 |
Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec) |
Mar 28 |
France performs nuclear test |
Mar 28 |
Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) |
Mar 28 |
Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua |
Mar 28 |
Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs) |
Mar 29 |
"Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances |
Mar 29 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 29 |
Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m |
Mar 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 30 |
43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50 |
Mar 30 |
Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III |
Mar 31 |
1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins |
Mar 31 |
53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People", R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win |
Apr 1 |
CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) |
Apr 1 |
Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. |
Apr 2 |
Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns |
Apr 2 |
Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon |
Apr 3 |
Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg |
Apr 3 |
Race riots in London's Brixton area |
Apr 4 |
Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio) |
Apr 5 |
10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
Apr 5 |
Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes |
Apr 6 |
Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo |
Apr 7 |
Belgium Eyskens government forms |
Apr 7 |
Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec |
Apr 8 |
Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs |
Apr 9 |
Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections |
Apr 9 |
LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0 |
Apr 9 |
US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru |
Apr 10 |
"Caveman" with Ringo premieres |
Apr 10 |
Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded |
Apr 10 |
France performs nuclear test |
Apr 10 |
Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament |
Apr 11 |
Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 11 |
Race riot in London area of Brixton |
Apr 11 |
Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him |
Apr 12 |
45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 12 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic |
Apr 12 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Apr 12 |
Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched |
Apr 13 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" |
Apr 13 |
Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) |
Apr 14 |
1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth |
Apr 15 |
Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story |
Apr 16 |
"Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances |
Apr 17 |
Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers |
Apr 17 |
Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
Apr 18 |
Pawtucket & Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game |
Apr 19 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf |
Apr 19 |
Oakland A's runs record to 11-0 |
Apr 19 |
William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos" premieres in NYC |
Apr 19 |
Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd) |
Apr 20 |
10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46 |
Apr 20 |
85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26 |
Apr 20 |
Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs |
Apr 20 |
Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession |
Apr 21 |
US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia |
Apr 22 |
10,000 copper workers in Chile strike |
Apr 22 |
Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike |
Apr 22 |
Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts |
Apr 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 22 |
Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $3.3 million stolen |
Apr 24 |
Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey |
Apr 24 |
IBM-PC computer introduced |
Apr 24 |
San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record |
Apr 24 |
US ends grain embargo against USSR |
Apr 25 |
Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot |
Apr 25 |
More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan. |
Apr 26 |
"Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances |
Apr 26 |
Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 27 |
1st female soccer official is hired by NASL |
Apr 27 |
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. |
Apr 28 |
Galician current Statute of Autonomy. |
Apr 29 |
Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women) |
Apr 29 |
Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters |
Apr 30 |
"Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Apr 30 |
16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones |
May 1 |
Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship with Marilyn Barnett - becoming first prominent sportswoman to come out |
May 1 |
Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges |
May 1 |
Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 |
May 2 |
107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02 |
May 2 |
Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes |
May 3 |
"Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances |
May 3 |
"Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC |
May 3 |
Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
May 4 |
Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles |
May 4 |
Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) |
May 4 |
Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2 |
May 4 |
After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Bobby Sands MP died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers die over the next 3 months |
May 5 |
16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge |
May 6 |
"Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances |
May 6 |
Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired & replaced by Rene Lachemann |
May 6 |
US expels Libyan diplomats |
May 8 |
Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record |
May 9 |
Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian |
May 10 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
May 10 |
Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Presidency of France |
May 10 |
Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0 |
May 11 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (based on TS Eliot) premieres in London |
May 12 |
"Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs |
May 12 |
Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn |
May 13 |
Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II |
May 13 |
Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City |
May 14 |
35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2 |
May 14 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-192 |
May 15 |
"Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs |
May 15 |
2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC) |
May 15 |
George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK |
May 15 |
Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto |
May 15 |
SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC |
May 15 |
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6 |
May 16 |
"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks |
May 16 |
107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6 |
May 16 |
Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1 |
May 17 |
"Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances |
May 17 |
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff |
May 17 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
May 19 |
Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters |
May 19 |
5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh |
May 20 |
Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam |
May 21 |
Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France |
May 21 |
Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA |
May 21 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1 |
May 21 |
Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral |
May 22 |
Soyuz 40 returns to Earth |
May 23 |
Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage |
May 23 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501 |
May 24 |
Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500 |
May 24 |
Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain |
May 24 |
Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 25 |
Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified |
May 25 |
Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron) |
May 25 |
Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours |
May 25 |
Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits |
May 26 |
Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 |
May 26 |
The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). |
May 27 |
John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol |
May 27 |
Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but umpire says no |
May 27 |
Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris |
May 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 30 |
"Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday) |
May 30 |
Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers |
May 30 |
LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games) |
May 31 |
Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
Jun 2 |
Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be |
Jun 3 |
Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt |
Jun 4 |
54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus |
Jun 5 |
Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777) |
Jun 5 |
Aids Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men |
Jun 5 |
George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England" |
Jun 5 |
TODAY/PC runs for 1st time |
Jun 6 |
113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29 |
Jun 6 |
51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) |
Jun 6 |
Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial |
Jun 6 |
A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. |
Jun 7 |
35th Tony Awards: Amadeus & 42nd Street win |
Jun 7 |
51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61) |
Jun 7 |
Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility |
Jun 7 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic |
Jun 8 |
15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters |
Jun 8 |
Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1 |
Jun 10 |
IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail |
Jun 10 |
Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits |
Jun 10 |
Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence |
Jun 10 |
Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co |
Jun 11 |
Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student |
Jun 11 |
Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike |
Jun 11 |
Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000. |
Jun 12 |
"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres |
Jun 12 |
3rd baseball strike starts |
Jun 12 |
Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike |
Jun 12 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 12 |
Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election |
Jun 13 |
39 Unification church couples wed in Germany |
Jun 13 |
Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II |
Jun 13 |
Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow" |
Jun 14 |
27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
Jun 14 |
No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl |
Jun 17 |
Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed |
Jun 18 |
Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 18 |
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court) |
Jun 18 |
Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge |
Jun 18 |
Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced |
Jun 18 |
The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California. |
Jun 19 |
Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified |
Jun 19 |
European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit |
Jun 19 |
Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa |
Jun 19 |
India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched |
Jun 20 |
Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats |
Jun 20 |
Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime |
Jun 20 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection |
Jun 21 |
12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 |
Jun 21 |
81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa |
Jun 21 |
Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan |
Jun 21 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf |
Jun 21 |
Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200 |
Jun 21 |
Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election |
Jun 22 |
2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 |
Jun 22 |
Iran president Bani Sadr deposed |
Jun 22 |
John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon |
Jun 22 |
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon |
Jun 23 |
"This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances |
Jun 23 |
33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2 |
Jun 23 |
Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition |
Jun 23 |
French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists |
Jun 23 |
NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy |
Jun 23 |
Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2 |
Jun 25 |
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional |
Jun 25 |
Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. |
Jun 26 |
"For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US |
Jun 27 |
"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot |
Jun 27 |
Cambodia adopts its constitution |
Jun 27 |
Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America |
Jun 28 |
"Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances |
Jun 28 |
74 government officials die in attack in Iran |
Jun 28 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
Jun 29 |
Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed |
Jun 29 |
Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR |
Jun 30 |
China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong's policy |
Jun 30 |
Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained |
Jul 1 |
Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded) |
Jul 1 |
NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen |
Jul 1 |
Nell Dunn's "Steaming" premieres in London |
Jul 1 |
Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam |
Jul 1 |
Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3 |
Jul 3 |
88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (6-2 6-2) |
Jul 3 |
NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token |
Jul 4 |
95th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (4-6 7-6 7-6 6-4) |
Jul 4 |
Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth |
Jul 5 |
9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson |
Jul 5 |
Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections |
Jul 5 |
Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory |
Jul 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 7 |
The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel |
Jul 7 |
Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified |
Jul 7 |
Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court |
Jul 8 |
France performs nuclear test |
Jul 8 |
PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France |
Jul 8 |
Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) |
Jul 9 |
Jacksons begin a 36-city tour |
Jul 10 |
CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) |
Jul 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 11 |
Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony |
Jul 11 |
Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18) |
Jul 12 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 14 |
Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London |
Jul 16 |
India performs nuclear Test |
Jul 16 |
Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously |
Jul 17 |
"This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs |
Jul 17 |
Humber Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens |
Jul 17 |
Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut |
Jul 17 |
Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured |
Jul 17 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 17 |
Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta |
Jul 17 |
Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another |
Jul 18 |
Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel KC caves in (113 killed) |
Jul 18 |
Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek |
Jul 19 |
110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George |
Jul 19 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
Jul 20 |
England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls |
Jul 20 |
Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe |
Jul 21 |
Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43 |
Jul 22 |
Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life |
Jul 24 |
Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran |
Jul 25 |
Voyager 2 encounters Saturn |
Jul 25 |
Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks by invading the pitch during the game. |
Jul 26 |
2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela |
Jul 26 |
36th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley |
Jul 26 |
NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant |
Jul 29 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated |
Jul 29 |
Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris |
Jul 29 |
Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa's Consul, New Zealand. |
Jul 30 |
Belgian Senate accept laws against racism |
Jul 30 |
Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" premieres in London |
Jul 31 |
42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends |
Jul 31 |
Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Association |
Aug 1 |
MTV premieres at 12:01 AM |
Aug 1 |
Poland premier Jagielski resigns |
Aug 2 |
Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs |
Aug 2 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Aug 3 |
13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated' |
Aug 3 |
France performs nuclear test in Pacific |
Aug 3 |
Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi. |
Aug 4 |
Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission |
Aug 4 |
Oliver North is assigned to White House duty |
Aug 5 |
US President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers |
Aug 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 6 |
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron freed |
Aug 6 |
Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st ½ champs |
Aug 6 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed |
Aug 7 |
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
Aug 8 |
At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws |
Aug 9 |
52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
Aug 9 |
Six English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) |
Aug 9 |
63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga |
Aug 9 |
All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) |
Aug 9 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
Aug 9 |
NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium) |
Aug 10 |
Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business |
Aug 10 |
Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record |
Aug 10 |
Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes |
Aug 12 |
IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0) |
Aug 12 |
Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) |
Aug 13 |
Last broadcast of "The Waltons" on CBS-TV |
Aug 13 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) |
Aug 14 |
George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront |
Aug 14 |
Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott |
Aug 15 |
Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford |
Aug 15 |
Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m |
Aug 16 |
Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0) |
Aug 16 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
Aug 16 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) |
Aug 18 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances |
Aug 18 |
Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons |
Aug 18 |
Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million |
Aug 19 |
2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 |
Aug 23 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
Aug 24 |
American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel |
Aug 24 |
Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder |
Aug 25 |
Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09) |
Aug 25 |
Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km) |
Aug 26 |
Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission |
Aug 26 |
Voyager 2 takes photos of Saturn's moon Titan |
Aug 27 |
Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria |
Aug 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 28 |
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan |
Aug 28 |
Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken) |
Aug 28 |
National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men |
Aug 29 |
28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9 |
Aug 29 |
Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League)) |
Aug 30 |
Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 31 |
Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's |
Aug 31 |
Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser |
Sep 1 |
Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) |
Sep 1 |
Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees |
Sep 1 |
RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show |
Sep 1 |
Northern Ireland's first religiously integrated secondary school opens |
Sep 2 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 3 |
Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
Sep 3 |
Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 |
Sep 4 |
Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7 |
Sep 4 |
Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC |
Sep 4 |
Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3) |
Sep 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 6 |
"They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs |
Sep 6 |
Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time |
Sep 7 |
Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts |
Sep 7 |
Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000 |
Sep 7 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 7 |
Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV |
Sep 7 |
West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series |
Sep 9 |
Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
Sep 10 |
"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain |
Sep 11 |
2nd government of Van Agt forms in Netherlands |
Sep 12 |
95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76) |
Sep 12 |
Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982 |
Sep 12 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
Sep 12 |
Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles |
Sep 13 |
101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (4-6 6-2 6-4 6-3) |
Sep 13 |
33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford win |
Sep 13 |
April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13" |
Sep 13 |
Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay) |
Sep 13 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
Sep 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 14 |
Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV |
Sep 15 |
US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court |
Sep 15 |
Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism |
Sep 15 |
The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC. |
Sep 15 |
Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. |
Sep 16 |
1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV |
Sep 17 |
Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season |
Sep 18 |
Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. |
Sep 19 |
Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket |
Sep 19 |
Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert |
Sep 20 |
24th Ryder Cup: US, 18½-9½ at Walton Heath Golf Club (Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England) |
Sep 20 |
Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal |
Sep 20 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
Sep 21 |
Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from UK |
Sep 21 |
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice |
Sep 21 |
Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson) |
Sep 21 |
Enterprise Radio (all sports) goes off the air |
Sep 22 |
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court |
Sep 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 25 |
Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0 |
Sep 25 |
Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila) |
Sep 25 |
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice |
Sep 26 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 27 |
"Day in Hollywood, A Night.." closes at John Golden NY after 588 perf |
Sep 27 |
Iran defends its besieged port of Abadan, driving back Iraqi forces |
Sep 28 |
Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City |
Sep 30 |
Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to KC 5-2 |
Sep 30 |
Seoul, South Korea, is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics |
Oct 1 |
Iranian plane crash |
Oct 1 |
J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder" premieres in London |
Oct 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 2 |
Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran |
Oct 3 |
Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason |
Oct 3 |
Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike |
Oct 3 |
Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 4 |
Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
Oct 4 |
Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ |
Oct 4 |
Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant |
Oct 5 |
Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5% |
Oct 5 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American |
Oct 7 |
Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt |
Oct 7 |
In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 |
Oct 8 |
1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV |
Oct 8 |
USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser |
Oct 8 |
President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral |
Oct 9 |
Abolition of capital punishment in France. |
Oct 10 |
Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo |
Oct 11 |
Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS |
Oct 11 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
Oct 11 |
LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds) |
Oct 11 |
Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum |
Oct 11 |
Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series |
Oct 12 |
"Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances |
Oct 12 |
15th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones wins |
Oct 13 |
Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt |
Oct 14 |
Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game |
Oct 14 |
Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. |
Oct 15 |
NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's |
Oct 15 |
Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California. |
Oct 16 |
2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns |
Oct 16 |
Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC |
Oct 18 |
Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections |
Oct 18 |
NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game |
Oct 18 |
Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader |
Oct 19 |
LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant |
Oct 19 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) |
Oct 20 |
1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99 |
Oct 20 |
3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery |
Oct 20 |
Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured |
Oct 22 |
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified |
Oct 22 |
Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland |
Oct 22 |
US national debt tops $1 trillion |
Oct 22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 22 |
The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins. |
Oct 22 |
The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated. |
Oct 22 |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame artificial sweetener for tabletop use following years of scrutiny |
Oct 23 |
US national debt hits $1 trillion |
Oct 24 |
Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth |
Oct 25 |
11th NYC Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 |
Oct 25 |
12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13 |
Oct 25 |
200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile |
Oct 25 |
Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon |
Oct 25 |
George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator |
Oct 26 |
LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series |
Oct 27 |
Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
Oct 27 |
The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. |
Oct 28 |
Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia |
Oct 28 |
NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games |
Oct 29 |
Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies |
Oct 31 |
1st live US radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC) |
Nov 1 |
1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents |
Nov 1 |
3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win |
Nov 1 |
Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Nov 1 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
Nov 3 |
Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award |
Nov 4 |
Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" premieres in NYC |
Nov 4 |
Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining |
Nov 4 |
Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley |
Nov 5 |
Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play" premieres in NYC |
Nov 5 |
Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine |
Nov 6 |
Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award |
Nov 6 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 7 |
France performs nuclear test |
Nov 8 |
Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election |
Nov 8 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 10 |
"Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Nov 10 |
Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz" premieres in NYC |
Nov 11 |
"Oh, Brother!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Nov 11 |
Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award |
Nov 12 |
1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V) |
Nov 12 |
2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) |
Nov 12 |
Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal" premieres in NYC |
Nov 12 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's) |
Nov 12 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |